People v. Riley

After the jurors had deliberated throughout the afternoon and until late in the evening the trial court caused them to be returned to the courtroom and addressed them as follows: “Now, ladies and gentlemen I gather from the fact that we haven’t heard from you, that you are having some difficulty in returning a decision. As I told you in my instructions to the jury it is the duty of the jury to reach a verdict if that be possible without violation of conscientious convictions of one sort or another. Now, I can see no reason why this jury of intelligent men and women cannot reach a verdict in…